fooled Definition In English

  • 0 past simple and past participle of fool

  • 1 to trick someone:

    • "Really, I'm very happy." "You could have fooled me."

    • Tim was fooled into believing that he'd won a lot of money.

    • She said she was doing it to help me, but I wasn't fooled.

    • Don't be fooled by his appearance.

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  • It also implies that those who protested were an enlightened minority who were not fooled by the conspiracy, a point which is flattering to them.

  • If such compiler optimizations cannot be turned off or fooled, one must generate code for the gen function by hand.

  • The feeling of conscious will can be fooled.

  • It would prove interesting to see whether a motor response, presumably controlled by the dorsal system, would be fooled in the same manner.

  • These experiments show that when performing motor tasks, as used by the ecologists to study invariants, subjects can be fooled by illusions.

  • We point out that fast (dorsal) actions can be fooled by contextual illusions while (ventral) perceptual judgements can be insensitive to them.

  • Of course, many of the local rioters and unemployed were not fooled by the strategy.

  • It has fooled some of us for some of the time, but it now risks fooling us all of the time.

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